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Essay Archive - Macbeth: Macbeth - A Tragic Hero
Macbeth: Macbeth - A Tragic Hero
"(Sometimes a tragic hero is created, not through his own villainy),
but rather through some flaw in him, he being one of those who are in high
station and good fortune, like Oedipus and Thyestes and the famous men of such
families as those." (Poetics, Aristotle). Every great tragedy is dominated by
a protagonist who has within himself a tragic flaw, too much or too little of
one of Aristotle's twelve virtues. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth,
a great Scottish general and thane of Glamis, has just won an ....
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